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Quotes About Song

I, who am doubt now, with a song .
~ Laura Kasischke
He turns on the radio and it's that goddamn song that's on the radio all the time this summer, the one about chasing waterfalls. No one chases a waterfall. You go for a swim and next thing you know, the current catches you and throws you right over.
~ Laura Lippman
Sometimes his brain works if he can manage it like music, like a song, like a river that does not halt. So he singsongs it: "Tell you what I'm gonna do, see." With the accent, like a Brooklyn
~ Laura Pritchett
The girls smiled and swayed as though Colleen's happiness was their favorite song.
~ Lauren Tarshis
I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.
~ Celine Dion
Follow, follow, follow. Just follow, baby, follow. You just follow that heart...girl...yada yada. Maybe these will be lyrics somewhere in a hit pop song soon, but here's why I don't like them, and I hope you won't either.
~ Chad Eastham
What is that sad, dark island?—It is Cythera,They tell us, a country famous in song,Banal Eldorado of all the old bachelors.Look! after all, it is a poor land!
~ Charles Baudelaire
The bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing, they say,' grumbled Tackleton.
~ Charles Dickens
And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!
~ Charles Dickens
He was one Who could not help it, for it was his nature To blossom into song, as 't is a tree's To leaf itself in April.
~ Alexander Smith
The infant opens its intelligence and love to the mother's song as much as to the mother's face... Every mother ought to sing. Let memories that begin life have songs that last for life.
~ Henry Giles (1809–1882)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~ Chinese proverb
Here he had read to me his tear-stained page Of sorrow... here would try To lay his burden in the hands of Song, And make the Poet bear the Lover's wrong, But still his heart impatiently would cry: "In vain, in vain! You cannot teach to flow In measured lines so measureless a woe. First learn to slay this wild beast of despair, Then from his harmless jaws your honey tear!"
~ Bayard Taylor, "First Evening"
...after-storm birds singing the color into rainbows...
~ Terri Guillemets
Lush juices of ripe fruits, splashed color flung From Frost's first palette, purple, gold, and red; The last sweet song the meadow lark has sung,— Dirge of the summer dead.
~ Alice Williams Brotherton
The little boy was coming home from school. He was skipping merrily along, singing to himself and swinging his bag of books at arm's length, while he kept time with his nimble little feet to a song he had been learning in his class that day.
~ Mary Emma Drewson, c.1883
We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
~ Graham Nash
My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
~ Graycie Harmon
Most of us, even in this digital age, know what a grandfather clock is – but do you know how they got their name? They were once known as long-case clocks, but in 1876 American songwriter Henry Clay Work wrote the song that would give birth to the name that we know them by today: "My Grandfather's Clock".
~ Greg Taylor
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
~ Gregory Colbert
To learn by heart is to learn By hurt—grief inscribing Its wisdom in the soft tissue. Song you sing, poem you are— Finger moving, precise As a phonograph needle, Along the groove of scar.
~ Gregory Orr
The dead sing us songs I'm learning to answer.
~ Gregory Orr
Cây n?n cháy, l?a xanh, l?a ??, Chân n?n kia, l? nh? lâm ly. L? khô, khi t?t n?n ?i, Cô em khóc lóc, gi?ng kia ?ã khàn. Cây n?n cháy, l?a vàng, l?a ??, Ng?i cùng em, hát ?? ?ôi câu. Tình ?au, khúc hát c?ng r?u Kim ?âm vào m?t, l? ?au ch?y tràn...
~ Gu Hua
Et je chantais cette romance En 1903 sans savoir Que mon amour à la semblance Du beau Phénix s'il meurt un soir Le matin voit sa renaissance.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire